[RFC PATCH for 4.18 2/2] rseq: validate rseq->rseq_cs padding to be zero

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Mon Jul 02 2018 - 16:41:26 EST


On 32-bit kernels, the rseq->rseq_cs_padding field is never read by the
kernel. However, 64-bit kernels dealing with 32-bit compat tasks read the
full 64-bit in its entirety, and terminates the offending process with
a segmentation fault if the upper 32 bits are set due to failure of
copy_from_user().

Ensure that both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels dealing with 32-bit tasks end
up terminating offending tasks with a segmentation fault if the upper
32-bit padding bits (rseq->rseq_cs_padding) are set by explicitly ensuring
that padding is zero on 32-bit kernels.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Paul Turner <pjt@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Dave Watson <davejwatson@xxxxxx>
CC: Chris Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@xxxxxx>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
CC: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
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---
kernel/rseq.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rseq.c b/kernel/rseq.c
index 2e5d88f09baf..c4c48157198f 100644
--- a/kernel/rseq.c
+++ b/kernel/rseq.c
@@ -112,6 +112,29 @@ static int rseq_reset_rseq_cpu_id(struct task_struct *t)
return 0;
}

+#ifndef __LP64__
+/*
+ * Ensure that padding is zero.
+ */
+static int check_rseq_cs_padding(struct task_struct *t)
+{
+ unsigned long pad;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = __get_user(pad, &t->rseq->rseq_cs_padding);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ if (pad)
+ return -EFAULT;
+ return 0;
+}
+#else
+static int check_rseq_cs_padding(struct task_struct *t)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
static int rseq_get_rseq_cs(struct task_struct *t, struct rseq_cs *rseq_cs)
{
struct rseq_cs __user *urseq_cs;
@@ -123,6 +146,9 @@ static int rseq_get_rseq_cs(struct task_struct *t, struct rseq_cs *rseq_cs)
ret = __get_user(ptr, &t->rseq->rseq_cs);
if (ret)
return ret;
+ ret = check_rseq_cs_padding(t);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
if (!ptr) {
memset(rseq_cs, 0, sizeof(*rseq_cs));
return 0;
--
2.11.0